admin | April 7, 2022
I always wanted for my family what I observe in so many other Jewish families: that feeling of deep connection that comes from being part of a Jewish community. To build bonds, I said yes when asked to teach a Yom Kippur study session at a local synagogue. I said yes when asked to provide feedback to rabbis on diversity initiatives
admin | April 7, 2022
'In the event of war with Israel, the mullahs will not hesitate to use them as bargaining chips' In 1979, shortly after the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the coming to power of the mullahs, notables from the country's Jewish community asked to meet Ayatollah Khomeini, the country's new strongman ruler. The Jewish leaders brought a tray filled with gold and silver in which they concealed a check for ten million dollars: the Jewish community of Iran had just bought its peace. The next day, Khomeini declared that anyone who attacked a Jew should be held accountable.
admin | April 7, 2022
Mostyska is a town that very few people had ever heard of before March. Its a small, very old city in the far west of Ukraine; it often changed hands, sometimes Ukrainian, sometimes Polish, always picturesque, often unsafe.
admin | April 7, 2022
Moments after being welcomed to Twitter by Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas), actor Elliot Levey (@ellevey) was receiving compliments about his pineapple.
admin | April 7, 2022
Ralph Leo Oppler Ralph Leo Oppler, 86, passed away on March 30, 2022. Born in Middletown, New York to Charles and Jetta Oppler, Ralph was introduced to the love of his life by his sister, Joan, and they married on September 22, 1957.
admin | April 6, 2022
A Jewish congregation in New York City has moved to evict Rhode Island congregants who worship at the nations oldest synagogue as part of a long-running dispute over control of the historic building.
admin | April 6, 2022
A judge on Wednesday sentenced a man accused of a series of hate crimes against a Carmichael synagogue and neighborhood to 180 days in jail, the Sacramento County District Attorneys Office said. Nicholas Sherman pleaded guilty to a felony count of desecrating a religious symbol on the property of the Shalom Le Israel synagogue in Carmichael and a misdemeanor count of terrorism for leaving flyers with a Nazi swastika on the grounds of the Deterding Elementary School
admin | April 6, 2022
Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. Police in Britain have arrested two teenagers in connection with events at a synagogue in Texas on Saturday, in which a gunman took four people hostage before he was killed
admin | April 6, 2022
All the hostages taken during a Shabbat service at Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, TX have been released and are safe, Texas Gov.
admin | April 6, 2022
Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, let the hostage-taker inside the synagogue in January because the man appeared to need shelter.
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